Cultivator attachment.



E. I. GORHAM.

GULTIVATOR ATTAGHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1912.

Patented May 20, 1.913.

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Bq it known th-at I, EUGENE I. GORHAM, acitizertiy'ff the United States, residing at Mount lion, in the countyfof Henry and Stilte of Iowa? have invented a. new and. iiseful Improvement in Cultivator ttache-A "intents, .off' whibh the following is af specigl'fidatfion i' invention relates to an attachment l'olfprffcultivators. and is adapted for use as a l stalk removery and can also be used as a. llarfrow in leveling down hills, removing;

l l v-Spec'caition of Letters Patent. Application filed Maren 1s. v1912. vserial-in. 684,620.

Patented May' 20, i 91.13..

` and afan; ma? is provieawah an eye 11 'which sets at an angle tothe rod and secured *hereto are curved spring teeth 12, 13 and 14, the said teeth beingof unequal length and each tooth having its shank terminating.

in aneye 15. Its eyes are placed in vertical alinement with the eye 11 and all of the teeth aresecuredto the rod 7-by a bolt 16 which passes through the eyes 11"and 15. These'teeth may be spread at any suitable angle to each other, thetooth'l which is.

designed for uprooting dead 'stalks being stalks at' -1e same time, and the device/ preferably placed in the center, said toot y calli also be used as a weeder, and as such it lacjross t-he r ws" in small corn.

,lThe special object of the inventio-nis to throw the stal {sf/to one side pushing 'them finto a positie" `ali/'allel with the furrow'be- 2,01 turned so t they will not catchupon f/ the Shanks lfenders of the cultivator.

In 'plowing s corn an old'st-alk which is lying straight/ ross the row will catch :upon

the fenderand'L lift the same thus allowing 2 5jthe vdirt to er t-he small corn, whereas j. with my .attachment in position the stalk will be brought into' alinement with the rows and be cove edi/yf' The inve tio/ consists of the novel fea'- tures of ,coiistiyuctiom hereinafter described,

pointed out in the claim and shown in the accompanying drawings. inwhich:

Figure lis a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a l' section on the line 2 -2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectionl on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1. Fig.' 4 is a detail perspective view of chain holder.' In thesedrawings 1 represnts the beam of'any desired typeof cultvator, and hung obliquely and rearwardly froln said beam are two parallel bars 2 which are held upon the beam by' means of bolts 3, the bolts passing respectively across the, top and bottom of lthe b'eam. The 'bars are alsoproy vided with suitable openings t rough 'which a bolt 4 can be passed. A second set of bars 5 hanging vertically from the beam 1 being securedin place by'a transverse bolt 6. A.A rod 7 has its upper end forked as shown at 8 and abolt 9 passes through said forksand through the lower overlapping end portions of the bars 2 and 5, thus pivotally se curing allof these part-s together. Between the-,forks 8 therebranches an arm 10, and a` spring a has one end secured to thearm andthe other end to the bolt 4. The lower being the shortest and being provided with an eye to which'is secured the end of a chain 17 said chain runs over a suitable pulley 17a and through-.a forked chain holder 18 which is secured-.upon the drop axle shaft of lthe cultivator, which is operated by ,a lever v19. The shaft and the lever are parts ofthe ordinary cultivator. It will be obvious `that bylspreading the teeth the stalks can be thrown either to the right orto the left, according to the fmanner in which the teethjare positioned, and they can be vset so as to engage the stalks at-any desiredangle thus throwing them to one side instead o gatheringthem and vcarrying them along "in advance 0f the cultivator. This attachment of the teeth also permits the device to be used in leveling hills and rows and also in weeding. l y

lVhat I claim is:- l

A device of the kind described, compris 4ing parallel bars adaptedto be liung from a cultivator frame in an oblique position, a pair of vertically suspended bars loverlapping the bars irst mentioned, a rod provided with -a forked upper end, a bolt passing n bars thereby pivotally connecting the barsv and therod, a branched arm carried by the forked portion of the rod, a spring having oneend connected thereto, a bolt adjustably carried bythe first mentioned bars, the opposite end of the spring being vsecured to said bolt, a curved tooth pivotally connected to the lower end ofthe rod, anda chain se.

cured to said teeth,I as and for the purpose set forth..

y EUGENE I. GORHAM.,

Witnesses: l

FRANK HALL, W. R. BUCHANAN. 

